"There is also a lot of popular protest against efforts to increase the concentration of the media in fewer and fewer hands so as to prevent even the limited diversity that exists. The books that you mention ["Weapons of Mass Deception" and "Stupid White Men"] are just two of the many. The books themselves, the critical literature - I've written on it too- aren't an alternative to the corporate media but rather a part of an on-going effort to construct alternatives or to compel them to function in a more honest fashion." Noam Chomsky in an interview for Radio Havana worthwhile reading